Forum spam

Yes, it did take us a long time to notice thousands of new "users" and the hundreds of thousands of messages they'd posted to our forums.

Yes, we didn't know exactly what to do, but take the forums offline temporarily.

Yes, we learned a bit more about SQL tables and sorting this all out.

In the end, the forums are back, better than ever, and with Google's brand new reCAPTCHA system to guard against "users" registering just to post spam to our forums. And yeah, all those users and their spam is gone!